When Threads launched on Wednesday, numerous right-wing users shared(opens in a new tab) their dissatisfaction(opens in a new tab) with Twitter’s biggest competitor — on Twitter of course — over having their accounts flagged for disinformation. As of Friday, however, it seems the warning label on accounts that reported the issue has since disappeared.
@JRepin The right is flush with cash from all these billionaire funded foundations. They mount such coordinated campaigns for their causes because they have that money. The tax code is the biggest enabler of the right’s rise. If the left ever gets a majority again, they need to remove tax loopholes for “charitable donations” to thinly veiled political organizations. It would definitely slow the influx of money.
Twitter and Truth Social have already captured the right-wing market, kowtowing to their demands is not going to earn Threads new users and will discourage moderates from signing up.
if you create a fresh new unlinked tiktok account and start swiping, most content will be vaccine propaganda, jordan peterson, and right-wing rhetorics.
Also, it totally proves that any instance that preemptively defederates from them is 100% in the right (for any people who honestly believe in a wait and see approach).
I was anti-defederate until now. I’ve always thought “fuck them,” but this is what I needed to say we should cut them out of the fediverse. Boot lickers.
Yeah, I largely agree. I know there are people that are concerned about Mastadon’s growth, but honestly the biggest thing preventing Mastadon from growing is that normies find federation to be confusing and stupid and small Mastadon instances have bad discoverability.
Twitter and Truth Social have already captured the right-wing market
Oh no! Anyway. All right-wingers are not bad people.
Personal morality alignment aside, the fact is those who support right wing policies and candidates, and those who identiy as ‘right wingers’ either explicitly or implicitly support right wing policies. These have time and time again been shown in practice to widen the inequality gap, suppress wages and purchasing power for non-capital owners, disproportionately reward corporate greed, roll back regulations put in place to preserve general health and welfare, decrease healthcare access and standards (same with education), disenfranchise minorities…etc.
No, they just make bad political decisions.
So you judge people by their actions not what they are?
You are your actions.
If someone consistently does horrible, hateful actions, guess what. They’re a horrible, hateful person.
Lol, yes.
If not by their actions, how do you judge someone? I cannot know “who they are” unless they either tell me or show me, and actions speak louder than words.
So many people will claim to be “good people” then go on a 20 minute rant about the “gay groomer agenda” and how gay people should “leave children alone” and how black people “commit too much crime and need to be policed more for it” when you give them one glass of wine and start talking about politics. Their overall stance is clear, and it isn’t on the side of “being a good person.”
Uh, yes. How else would you judge people?
I’m just asking. That’s all.
Ok Tucker.
Absolutely, though I’m a believer that what they are is in part defined by their actions. Any label prescribed onto people is a mixture of identity and actions, and only the actions impact other people, and I personally believe that someone’s moral worth is determined by the effects of their actions on other people.
That depends on your definition of “right winger.” Your average Republican is likely a fine person, but your average fascist isn’t. If you:
- support Jan 6 rioters
- believe in QAnon
- believe in phrenology
- think we should have less immigration
You’re probably not a good person. But if you merely believe in smaller government and think the GOP will give that to you, then you’re probably fine. I don’t have a problem with people who support the GOP (I do have a problem with the GOP itself), but I do have a problem with the right wing of the GOP and especially the few who the GOP consider “too radical” for the party.
The same is true for the left end of the spectrum as well. Basically, once you go too far down one end of the spectrum, there’s a good chance you’re self-selecting as a bad person.
If you want to use the might of government to right some “social wrong,” we’re probably not going to agree. Government should merely exist to maintain order and protect the vulnerable, it shouldn’t be used to regiment society in any real way.
if you merely believe in smaller government and think the GOP will give that to you, then you’re delusional and gullible
The prerequisite to identify yourself as a right-winger is to have a severe deficit in basic problem solving skills and the ability to logically deconstruct misinformation. While they’re not all inherently bad people, they are absolutely being manipulated by some of the worst people this world has to offer and I say that without a grain of hyperbolism. The sheer amount of self-contradictions and hypocrisy that comes from right wing outlets makes my head spin but is often completely overlooked or willfully ignored by those who are made to support those positions out of fear or anger.
Conservatives are widely victims of the upper class mass-generating misinformation to keep people distracted on culture wars so they don’t notice the desperate need for a class war. Socialism is compared to Communism, Communism is compared to the USSR, somehow reviving The Red Scare and in the next breath will praise Putin for the unprovoked slaughter of Ukrainians because ‘that’s what a strong leader does’. All of which is done to distract from policies that would make the rich less rich by making some of the worst possible takes. The mere fact gas stoves was actually turned into a culture war speaks volumes about how little these idiots need to generate outrage.
I pity them more than anything but I’m not immune to getting irrationally angry at the terminally stupid.
Now you’re cooking with poison!
“If you flag our lies, we’ll cry!!!” -Republicans
Are you asking for big tech to decide what’s true or not?
// Not American or conservative in the least, but the idea sounds dystopian to me.
No one needs to give big tech permission to do anything. When it serves their interests they just shove it down peoples throats no questions asked.
The only reason we’re having this discussion is because right wing lies generate revenue for them so they let it happen.
The only reason there even exists an argument that curbing the spread of dangerous lies is somehow an infringement upon people’s “freedom of speech” is because its a convenient scapegoat for platforms to justify not doing something about it and for the bad actors to keep on doing it and face no repercussion.
Beats the hell out of the Republicans deciding it. The Pandemic outed them.
Any platform that welcomes or caters to the political right wing is rendered effectively useless.
I was meh on the whole meta fediverse thing but yeah, fuck em. Already defederated them and they aren’t even using it yet.
